We Let Our Bombs Go Jap Ships Fell Apart
American aviators describe bombing attacks off Java as fighters clash with Japanese transports and bombers. Allied pilots, weary, report effective strikes while defending Embattled Java with Dutch Australian and British forces amid ongoing air battles.
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Java
St Nicolaas Point
Dramaya
Rambang
U. S
Bali
Edwin C. Habberstad
Minnesota
R. H. Beck
Pennsylvania
H. C Smeltzer
Nashville
Tenn
F. M. Hardison
Washington
T. B. Swanson
C. A. Bevan
U S Helps Free French Defend Pacific Island
The United States and Free French forces cooperate to defend strategic Pacific possessions including New Caledonia. New Caledonia’s nickel resources and refineries are noted as vital, with concern over potential Japanese use of the island near routes to New Zealand and Australia. No details on specific American support were announced, though a Berlin radio report claimed troops had landed.
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Washington
United States
Pacific
New Caledonia
Japan
New Zealand
Australia
Pacific Islands
Bérlin
Girl Scouts Sell 9 000 Boxes Despite Bad Weather
Amarillo Girl Scouts sold 9 000 boxes of cookies but missed their goal by 1 000. Proceeds fund the girls camp debt. cookies remain available via Scout office or Mrs Dorsey Smith of Wallace North Carolina.
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Amarillo
Scout Office
Dorsey Smith
Texas Exes Banquet Tonight At Rose Bowl
Plains Ex-Students of the University of Texas plan their annual meeting and banquet at 7 30 tonight at the Rose Bowl. Sim Kelly will deliver the main address on the university’s war effort. Motion pictures of the Texas SMU game will be shown. Herb Willborn presides. Reservations closed but plates may be obtained at the door.
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Willborn
Rubinoff and His Violin Headline at Municipal Auditorium
Rubinoff the famed violinist conductor appears at the Municipal Auditorium next Friday night in a Philhar monic Orchestral Association concert. His violin carries a long history from a $1.75 gift to an insured instrument worth $100 000, before settling on the Guadagnini that now anchors his performances.
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Arturo Toscanini
Lawrence Tibbett
Somerset Maughan
Rubinoff
Municipal Auditorium
Philharmonic Orchestral Association
Europe
Rufinoff
Royal Conservatory
Warsaw
America
Severe Weather Boosts School Lunch Fund Drive
Donations to the needy children school lunch fund increase after a weather event. Contributions to be sent as checks payable to The School Lunch Fund and delivered to the county courthouse business office. Names include Mother Benton, J Wynn, Fidelis Class, Painters Union No. 544, and Child Welfare Club. A concert fundraiser features Rubinoff with Alexander Makofka, tickets $1 to $2 at the Amarillo Hotel chamber office.
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Mother Benton
First Christian Church
J. 1
Wynn
Fidelis
First Baptist Church
Child Welfare Club Painters’ Union
Sorensen to Speak at Rotary Institute Tonight
Clarence Woodrow Sorensen, noted roving reporter, will speak at 8 pm at the Senior High School auditorium as the second presenter in the Rotary Institute of International Understanding. He has covered Near East to Pan American events and recently spoke to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.
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Clarence Woodrow Sorensen
Rotary Institute of International Understanding
Sorensen
Near East
India
Borneo
Philippines
China
Japan
Germany
Mexico
Columbia Broadcasting System
U Boat Attack Toll Reported by Survivors at Sea
Survivors of a mid Atlantic convoy say at least four merchant ships were torpedoed by a U boat raid. Seamen from three tankers and one freighter were rescued, with accounts noting up to nine ships torpedoed and world war era conditions as the raid lasted days. A US warship aided rescues.
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Mid- Atlantic
United States
Atlantic
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Albuquerque, N.M
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Clark Field
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the Globe and News
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Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo Hotel
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Watauga Settlement
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White's Auto Stores
C. M. Williams & CO
Taylor
Levine
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